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‘In delightfully readable short chapters by leaders in the sub-fields who are also committed teachers, this encyclopedia of how and what in teaching economics covers everything. There is nothing else like it, and it should be required reading for anyone starting a teaching career – and for anyone who has been teaching for fewer than 50 years!’– Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas, Austin, US

The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics provides a comprehensive resource for instructors and researchers in economics, both new and experienced. This wide-ranging collection is designed to enhance student learning by helping economic educators learn more about course content, pedagogic techniques, and the scholarship of the teaching enterprise.

The internationally renowned contributors present an exhaustive compilation of accessible insights into major research in economic education across a wide range of topic areas including:

Grounded in research, and covering past and present knowledge as well as future challenges, this detailed compendium of economics education will prove an invaluable reference tool for all involved in the teaching of economics: graduate students, new teachers, lecturers, faculty, researchers, chairs, deans and directors.

Section B – Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School 29. Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High SchoolCarlos Asarta and Ken Rebeck

Section C – Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics30. Research on the Effectiveness of Non-Traditional Pedagogies Joshua D. Miller and Robert P. Rebelein

Section D – What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of Literature 34. What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of the Literature Stephen B. DeLoach

Section D – International Economic Education71. Supporting Economics Higher Education in the United Kingdom John Sloman and Inna Pomorina

72. Economics Education in Australia Alan Duhs and Ross Guest

73. Ordonomics and the Current State of Economic Education in Germany Ewald Mittelstaedt and Claudia Wiepcke

PART VI: INITIATIVES FOR TEACHING ENHANCEMENTSection A – Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education74. Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic EducationWilliam T. Alpert and Michael A. MacDowell

Section B – An Introduction to Economic Organizations in the US and Beyond75. Near and Far – An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond Franklin G. Mixon, Jr